Grind Tycoon Wiki

🌱Your first ten minutes

Grind Tycoon is a farm progression game: you plant, you harvest, you reinvest, and you start again bigger. There are no guns, no mandatory roleplay, and no account to create.

1. You arrive at the Hamlet with 3 plots. They are the squares of soil in front of you. They are yours, nobody else can touch them.
2. Walk up to a plot and press E. The seed menu opens. Take wheat: it is the cheapest and the fastest.
3. Wait eight seconds. The plant grows before your eyes. When it is ready, it shines.
4. Press E again to harvest. The money drops right away: no need to go and sell anything.
5. Do it again, then buy one more plot as soon as you can. One more plot means one more harvest every round.
6. Open TAB to see your menu: your plots, your upgrades, your villages, your progress.

🔁The game loop

The whole game comes down to four actions that chain faster and faster.

Where your money goes

There are only four things to spend on in the game, and they all pay off sooner or later: seeds, plots, upgrades and orchard trees. Tokens, on the other hand, can't be bought with money: you earn them by playing.

🟫Plots

You start with 3 plots. Each extra plot costs 45% more than the previous one, starting at $50.

The maximum number of plots depends on the village: 6 in the Hamlet, 12 in Grapeseed, 20 in the Plains.

🌾Crops

Eight crops, unlocked over your rebirths. The later they come, the more they earn — both in percentage and in absolute value.

Which one to plant?

Almost always the most expensive one you can afford on all your plots at once. Its earnings per minute are better, even if it takes longer to grow.

One exception: if you are about to buy a plot or an upgrade, plant wheat in the meantime. You lock up less money and reach your goal faster.

⬆️Upgrades

Three upgrades, twelve levels each. They are bought at the village's Upgrades terminal, or from the TAB menu.

Each level costs 35% more than the previous one. The twelve Yield levels cost about $5,100 in total, before any rebirth. Fertilizer and faster growth stack, but never go beyond −80% growth time.

In which order?

1. Yield first. +15% on every harvest, right away, for cheap.
2. Fertilizer next. More harvests per hour, so more money — but only if you are there to harvest.
3. Workers last, unless you play in short sessions: they are the ones filling your wallet while you are away.

✨Rebirth

This is the heart of the game. You give back your money, your plots and your upgrades, and in exchange everything earns 2.62 times more, forever. Thirty rebirths in total.

What you keep, what you lose

Requirements

A rebirth requires two things — three from rebirth 16:

• Money, depending on the tier (table below);
• Unlocked boost levels, all abilities combined;
• Stars from the orchard, from the 16^th.

From the 16^th, you also need stars: 3,000 for the 16th, 4,800 for the 17th, 7,700 for the 18th, then more and more. Beyond the 17^th, boosts are no longer a requirement: it all comes down to money and stars.

The rebirth menu opens with F5, or at the village's Rebirth terminal.

🗺️The three villages

Each village is a separate farm, with its own plots. You travel from the Travel terminal, and you can come back whenever you want.

A village unlocks at the rebirth shown and stays available afterwards. The incubator camp and the egg hunt are shared by all three.

🎟️Tokens

The second currency. It can't be bought — neither with in-game money nor with real money. It is only used for boosts, and it survives rebirths.

How to earn them

⚡Boosts

Permanent abilities, bought with tokens in the F4 menu. They are never lost, not even when you rebirth.

Temporary bonuses

One harvest in ten also triggers a free, short-lived bonus: money ×2 for 3 minutes, twice-as-fast growth for 3 minutes, or faster running for 2 min 30. They show up at the top of the screen.

💤Offline earnings

When you log off, your farm keeps producing. When you come back, the game offers you the accumulated total.

• $2 per minute base, multiplied like everything else by your rebirths;
• +$3 per minute per Workers level, so +$36/min at level 12;
• ×1.5 to ×4 with the Offline earnings boost;
• the counter stops after 8 hours.

The fisherman and the farmer keep going too, but at 40% of their normal output.

🐔The henhouse

Hens lay eggs on their own, non-stop, in every village. You collect the eggs at the nest and carry them in a basket.

The six rarities

Three things to do with an egg

1. Hatch it at the incubator camp: it becomes a companion.
2. Sell it to the shipper: money and tokens.
3. Keep it: there's no rush, but an egg in your arms can be stolen at the camp.

The odds are shown in game, in the henhouse menu: they are exactly the ones in the table.

🏕️The incubator camp

The only place in the game where other players can take something from you. It's also the only place where an egg hatches.

How it works

• You put your egg on your pad, and hatching starts.
• Time only runs while you are at the camp: leaving pauses the egg.
• Your shield opens and closes on its own every 30 seconds. With the shield open, your egg can be stolen.
• Closing your shield quickly (within 10 seconds) gives you 10 seconds of free hatching.
• Stealing someone else's egg means staying next to it, in the open, for 3 seconds.

You have 1 incubator at the start, 2 at rebirth 3, 3 at rebirth 7 and 4 at rebirth 12. The camp holds 4 players per instance: beyond that, a new instance opens automatically, nobody waits.

🐾Companions

Twelve species, two per rarity. A hatching egg gives a companion of its rarity. You choose only one to follow you: that's the one that applies its full bonus.

The collection bonus

Each different species you have already obtained adds +1% money on all your harvests, even if it's sleeping in your index. With all twelve species: +12%. So collecting is worth it, without a veteran crushing a newcomer.

The companion menu opens with F9.

📦The shipper

He buys your eggs. You hand him one, he leaves, and he comes back to pay you later — the clock runs even while you're offline. Three shipments can travel at the same time.

"24 farm minutes" means: what your farm produces in 24 minutes, at your current level. A payment in fixed dollars would be huge at the start and ridiculous at rebirth 12; this way, a rare egg keeps the same value at every level.

Daily orders

Two orders are drawn every day: several eggs requested together, for example "two commons and a rare". They pay 1.7 times the sum of the separate shipments, plus 2 tokens, and go 15% faster — while only taking one of the three slots.

🥚The egg hunt

A separate field where eggs appear on the ground. You pick them up by hand, running, before they disappear.

• 4 players per instance, 30 eggs on the ground at the same time;
• an egg stays 20 to 25 seconds before vanishing;
• you can carry 3 at a time, then you have to drop them off;
• 30 eggs per hour per player at most;
• the odds are the same everywhere: 65% common, 0.1% mythic.

You enter through the egg hunt NPC, found in every village.

🌳The orchard

Unlocked at rebirth 9, in the Plains. It's the endgame content: 50 tree slots, ten fruits, mutations, and the stars required from rebirth 16.

The ten trees

The first sapling is free. A tree goes up to level 5 and produces its fruit in a loop, from 5 minutes for an apple tree.

Mutations

About one fruit in six is born mutated, and its value is multiplied. A fruit that is already mutated can get a second one (one time in four), up to five.

📈The trader

In Grapeseed and the Plains. You bet an amount, a curve goes up, and you cash out whenever you want — but it can crash all of a sudden.

• The multiplier goes up to ×5 at most;
• the crash hits between 15 and 30 seconds after the start, without warning;
• 5 minutes of waiting between two rounds.

🎣The fisherman and the farmer

Two characters to hire who produce for you, non-stop, even when you're elsewhere.

Both keep going offline, at 40% of their output. Their production is expressed in "plots": the level 9 fisherman earns as much as 3.4 plots running on their own.

🎯Challenges and daily gift

The three daily challenges

One easy, one medium, one hard, drawn every day and shown above the minimap. They complete on their own: no button to click.

Two players don't get the same challenges on the same day, and logging back in doesn't reroll them. The I key hides the display.

The daily gift

A login streak: each consecutive day gives more than the day before — money, tokens, sometimes a temporary bonus. Menu F3.

🛒The store

Optional, and designed not to break the game: nothing can be bought that can't be earned by playing, there are no mystery packs, and tokens are not for sale.

The details and prices are on the Store page.

⌨️Keys and commands

All keys can be changed in the FiveM settings: Settings › Key Bindings › FiveM.

🏆How to succeed

The game doesn't reward whoever plays the longest, but whoever never lets their money sleep. Here is the plan, step by step.

Rebirths 0 to 3: learn and go fast

• Buy plots up to 6 in the Hamlet. Nothing else is a priority.
• Raise Yield to 4 or 5, then Fertilizer.
• As soon as you have 4 tokens: Magnet level 1. You'll never play without it again.
• Rebirth the moment you have the $250 and your first boost level. Don't hoard.
• Pick up eggs as you go: they fund your tokens through the shipper.

Rebirths 3 to 9: the machine starts up

• Move to Grapeseed and go up to 12 plots.
• Always plant the most expensive seed you can put everywhere.
• Magnet maxed out (5 m), then Faster growth.
• Take Starting money: it removes the five slow minutes after each rebirth.
• Always keep three shipments on the way, and fill daily orders first.
• Hatch your epic eggs and better: aim for a money companion.

Rebirths 9 to 15: nothing by hand anymore

• Head to the Plains and its 20 plots.
• Auto replant and Teleport unlock: take them immediately. From then on, you walk through your field and everything happens on its own.
• Open the orchard and plant as soon as you can. Stars take time to pile up, and you'll need 3,000 at rebirth 16.
• Level up the fisherman: at this stage, your tokens come in faster than you spend them.
• Clover becomes worth it: more rare eggs, more good mutations.

Rebirth 16 and beyond: the race for stars

• Money is no longer the limiting factor: stars are.
• Fill your 50 slots and raise each tree to level 5.
• Replace your trees with better ones as soon as you unlock the next variety.
• Complete your collection of twelve companions: +12% money, permanently.

⚠️Classic mistakes

• Waiting to have "a lot" before rebirthing. The most costly mistake in the game. Tier reached? Rebirth.
• Planting wheat at rebirth 10. The most expensive crop earns more per minute, even though it grows longer.
• Leaving plots empty. An empty plot earns nothing, and it's the most expensive purchase in the game.
• Keeping your common eggs. They're worthless as companions, but they fund your tokens at the shipper.
• Leaving the three shipping slots empty. That's free money and tokens not working for you.
• Wandering away from your pad at the camp. Going off to steal from others means offering up your own egg.
• Betting your rebirth money at the trader. The curve always drops eventually.
• Waiting for rebirth 16 to plant your first tree. Stars come in slowly: plant from rebirth 9.

📖Glossary